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Introduction to the Biblical Creation Worldview

Natural vs. Supernatural History?

Creation science
is philosophically-based on the belief that the universe and
life on earth were created by God as described in the Bible.
Creationists use the scientific method also, but simply operate from the presupposition
that God designed and assembled our world.

Old earth creationists
accept the secular scientific community's assessment of the age
of the earth and universe, and assume the creation periods were
undefined lengths of time or there were large gaps of history
in Genesis.

All creationists believe God created life,
therefore, one of the main contentions between the creation and
evolution camps is the
origin of life. In
contrast, secular scientists believe that all
matter in the universe originated from a great cosmic explosion
called
the big-bang. They also assume that life developed following a
natural assemblage
of molecules and subsequent spontaneous reactions. Modern scientists
are adamant that divine creation is not a valid explanation because the
community is
largely atheistic. Instead they
are adamant that natural processes must be responsible for life's origin. It may be shocking
to learn that a recent poll of the National Academy of
Science found that 95% of biologists are either agnostic or atheists (Nature,
Vol. 394, No. 6691, p. 313). As evolution is the biological
communities champion theory, a relationship to the rapid progression
of atheism in that discipline is rather obvious.
Evolution
is being taught as an unquestionable fact today, and is being
used to explain the
origin of life
and the
evolution of man without
God.

Truth Only Through Biblical Insight

The interpretation of the fossil record is the
other main point of contention between secular and creation
scientists. The young-earth creationist believes
the
Genesis account of Noah's flood was global in magnitude,
and this event is readily supported by the existence of the
sedimentary deposits known as
the geological column. It is believed
the evidence from this event remains misunderstood by the scientific
community, because it is after-all impossible to correctly interpret
the physical evidence of a supernatural event from a naturalistic
perspective.

If a global flood occurred
as
described in the Bible, an atheist would be unable to conclude
this from
the physical evidence
because the preservation of modern animals was supernaturally-based.
A great many of the the animals in the fossil record are still
alive today, and any interpretation of the
fossil
record must take into consideration the existence of modern
animals which are ancestors of those fossilized. Therefore despite
the
magnitude of flood deposits
covering the entire planet, the scientific community can not
interpret the strata as the result of a single catastrophe. Although
every inch of the earth has been covered in
hundreds
of feet of flood sediment, a single flood capable of depositing
the entire fossil record could not have been survived without
a supernatural intervention. From a naturalistic perspective,
the scientific community can only come to the conclusion that
the sedimentary rocks were deposited in a manner that animals
could naturally survive; (i.e. multiple local floods, gradual
deposition over millions of years, etc).

However, the
Bible
teaches that a flood catastrophe occurred in earth's history
that was not naturally survivable by any air-breathing animal.
The quantity of sedimentary deposits found on earth today stands
as a monument to the Biblical global flood, but the animals alive
today are only here because they were
saved
from this catastrophe by divine intervention. The scientific
community can not imagine that such an amazing story is possible,
and can not make the correct interpretation of the fossil record
without this key information. If God has been involved in the
creation and subsequent historical events which shaped our world,
then physical evidence interpreted by an
atheistic
community should be examined closely for philosophically-derived
errors.

The Truth is Out There

It is obvious when you take the time to look, that
our world has been
intelligently designed and assembled
to host life. It is equally self-evident that there has been a terrible
flood that totally destroyed the earth, but life miraculously
lives. We all interpret the world around us through our presuppositions,
and modern science has become overwhelmingly
atheistic.
They are adamant that God had no part in the development of our
world, and insistent that random natural processes alone explain
our existence. A naturalist cannot correctly interpret
the history of a world with a supernatural history. If the Bible
is true, the truth is out there, but overwhelmed by a sea of
misinformation that was birthed by atheistic philosophy.

If you believe that God created the world and life on it, then look to
creation scientists who trust in the Bible as authoritative on early Earth
history. These scientists are attempting to resolve the conflicts
that exist between Biblical and scientific teachings. All the
answers may not exist just yet, but the Biblical insight possessed
by creation scientists offers humanity its best hope for a
resolution into the true nature of our world. The creation vs.
evolution controversy may be the most important issue that has
deserved your personal attention. After all; if you have been
created, wouldn't you want to know
why.

2 Peter 3:3-6
First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the
last days with scoffing, following their own passions 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For
ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were
from the beginning of creation." 5
They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens
existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,
6 through which the world that then
existed was deluged with water and perished.